His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he... Smugglers and Smuggling - Page 71by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill - 1924 - 327 pagesFull view - About this book
| Robert Burns Morgan - Great Britain - 1923 - 696 pages
...has paid 15 per cent. — flings himself back upon his chintz-bed, which has paid 22 per cent., — makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a licence of an hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then... | |
| Francis Wrigley Hirst - Free enterprise - 1925 - 104 pages
...spoon which has paid 15 per cent, flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent, makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a licence of £100 for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
| Federico Llaverías - Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) - 1925 - 544 pages
...has paid fifteen per cent, flings himself back in his chintz bed which has paid twenty-two percent, makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then... | |
| Donald Rutherford - Classical school of economics - 1996 - 520 pages
...that has paid 15 percent. — flings himself back upon his chintz-bed which has paid 22 per cent. — makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of an hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then... | |
| 200 pages
...has paid 15 per cent. — flings himself back upon his chintz-bed, which has paid 22 per cent., — makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a licence of an hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then... | |
| James L. Outman - Industrial revolution - 2003 - 516 pages
...paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a licence of £100 for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
| 162 pages
...has paid 15 per cent. — flings himself back upon his chintz-bed, which has paid 22 per cent., — makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a licence of an hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then... | |
| William Cunningham - Free enterprise - 1938 - 456 pages
...paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a licence of £100 for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
| United States - 1911 - 674 pages
...cent; flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent; makes his will on an £8 stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of £100 for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
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